Depressing music, dark literature and positive thoughts

This advert has been on television a few times today and it got me thinking. The advert had a guy who knew these embarrassing facts about this girl he had not long met - her first album bought, celebrity crush...that sort of thing. He found out by texting this number. The advert got me thinking about how a lot of people will wonder how all these facts can be so readily available. I thought to myself, 'It is dangerous that people whack all this information about themselves online via Facebook or some place else and don't realise that this is all being collated'.

They don't realise that prospective employers look this up, for example. Prospective employers would be interested in profile updates such as, 'Drunk again, day off work' - that kind of drivel. Heck, even your online viewing habits are recorded which is why I rarely use Google and go for a private search engine instead. I know that a lot of my chums here are also clued up and that they use Tor for reasons other than to download internet porn!

Anyway, over the years I have left details about myself littered all around the interweb. I thought that I'd save you all the expense of sending a premium rate text to find out all about me. Yes, I will now detail everything about me here in this blog post. Why? Because I'm so thoughtful like that.

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